-Hello, and thank you for visiting. I am currently living in Copenhagen, Denmark, touring with the band Efterklang as their violinist, as well as opening many of the shows as a solo act. My first full-length album, Float, has recently been released on Type Records. Between tours this year I'll be working on a few film score projects, reading lots of books, and taking lots of trips to Sweden. I have brown hair and blue eyes, and I was born in a snow storm in Searsmont, Maine, back on January 20, 1987. I enjoy playing many different kinds of instruments, but I must say the piano is probably my favorite. And that's about all there is to know about me.
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-Out now on Type Records!:
Float -- a full-length album, on CD and vinyl. 10 tracks based around short piano compositions. Lots of strings. Also, little bits of banjo, celeste, saw, vocals, trumpet, drums, etc. Two songs in the player above. You can buy the limited edition vinyl right here, and the CD right here.
-Out now on Kning Disk!
Docile -- a mini-album of solo piano. Written in less than a week, recorded on 2 inch tape in less than an hour. The first in a series of solo piano albums from different artists on Kning Disk. You can order it at the Kning Disk Shop. Reviews here,here, and here.
-Out now on Type Records!
Retreat/Release -- a 7 inch record, with one 5 minute song on each side. Piano, violin, voice, field recordings, and a little bit of percussion. Available here.
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-Old out of print releases:
Live In Europe (free download and 40 handmade CD's, 2007)
European tour CD (compilation of outtakes and music for film, 2007)
4 track songs vol. 2 (12 songs recorded on 4 track, 2006)
4 track songs (13 songs recorded on 4 track, 2006)
untitled saw recordings (10 tracks of nothing but musical saw, 2005)
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-Other appearances/collaborations:
Horse Feathers - House With No Home (2008, Kill Rock Stars)
M. Ward - TBA (2008/2009, Merge/4AD)
Efterklang - Tour EP 1 (2008, self-released)
Our Broken Garden - Lost Sailor (2008, Bella Union)
She & Him - Volume 1 (2008, Merge)
Library Tapes - A Summer Beneath the Trees (2008, Make Mine Music)
Library Tapes - Fragment EP (2008, Kning Disk)
White Hinterland - Phylactery Factory (2008, Dead Oceans)
Loch Lomond - Paper the Walls (2007, Hush Records)
Machinefabriek - Kruimeldief (2007, Machinefabriek self-release)
Machinefabriek - Huis (2007, Machinefabriek self-release)
Dolorean - You Can't Win (2007, Yep-Roc Records)
Loch Lomond - Lament for Children EP (2007, Hush Records)
Laura Gibson - If you Come to Great Me (2006, Hush Records)
Norfolk & Western - The Unsung Colony (2006, Hush Records)
Horse Feathers - Words are Dead (2006, Lucky Madison Records)
Norfolk & Western - A Glided Age (2006, Hush Records)
Your album has been selected as Best of 2008 [so far...] !!! Thank you so much for contributing your music to the world! To see the entire list read official post at Headphone Commute.
Perhaps it's possible to stop comparing some contemporary classical musicians to Max Richter, and instead begin comparing them to Peter Broderick. After a release of a 7" single on John Twells' (Xela) Type Records, Portland based Peter Broderick emerges with a full length album, Float. For this release, Broderick borrows his friends Amanda Lawrence for string and vocal work, and Skyler Norwood to aid in recording and effects from a collaboration on Loch Lomond's Paper The Walls (Hush Records, 2007). Float is immediately bold, familiar, and elegant. As any soundtrack written for a passing life, it transcends its message past the minor key. At first the album sounds too comfortable, like a soft blanket thrown over the frigid winter feet. I feel as if I've heard this sound before, perhaps in a forgotten film, or as a fragment of a beloved prelude. But as I let my mind break down the composition, the messages begin to emerge. I'll let you hear your own details - I'd hate to lock the music into words. Broderick's banjo playing adds an interesting element to the ensemble of the [usual] piano, strings and an occasional guitar. And I can't help but draw a parallel between the ages of Broderick and Ólafur Arnalds - both are only twenty one! With that said, may I claim that modern classical is at the beginnings of a new cycle, with young multi-instrumentalists incorporating both, organic and electronic, leading the way. Highly recommended! A cozy cinematic score. Check out above mention artists plus Harold Budd, Michael Nyman, Alberto Iglesias, Clint Mansell and of course Jóhann Jóhannsson.
“Il y a dans le travaille des mains et en général dans le travaille d’exécution, qui est le travaille proprement dit, un élément irréductible de servitude que meme une parfaite équité sociale n’affacerait pas. C’est le fait qu’il est gouverné par la nécessité, non par la finalité. On l’exécute à cause d’un besoin, non en vue d’un bien; .., comme disent ceux qui y passent leur existence. On fournit en effort ou terme duquel, à tous égards, on n’aura pas autre chose que ce qu’on a. Sans cet effort, on perdrait ce qu’on a. Simone Weil
